Os patching vxvm vxdisk

Solaris os patching on vcs or svm set up here i am providing step by step patching plan for vcs cluster setup environment. Solaristm 7 os, with kernel patch 10654108 or higher. Take all the configuration screenshot backup as well as explorer save it to your local laptop 4. Use the interactive vxdiskadm utility to initialize the disks as vxvm disks. I have added six, 1 gb disks other than two, 16 gb disks for root mirroring to my vmware virtual machine for future. Recovery of diskgroup in vxvm veritas volume manager. Configuration data from a backup allows you to reinstall the private region headers of vxvm disks in a disk group whose headers have become damaged, to recreate a corrupted disk group configuration, or to recreate a disk group and the vxvm objects within it.

Aix patches installed, before installing veritas storage foundation. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. On such systems, some device addresses are autoconfigured when vxconfigd is started. Configuration daemon is not accessible regarding the completeness of the translation. Listing 1 shows an example of using the vxdisk command to list the disk status.

Check out the outputs of df, vxdisk and vxdg to identify the state of dgs and. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. Vxvm allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus allowing high redundancy and high performance. Since vxvm is a multithreaded application, it sends multiple requests in parallel to io subsystem. Get vxvm to recognize that a failed disk is now working again. You can also use the configuration data to recreate a disk group on another system if. I guess the os enumerated the new luns with the old device ids or your os device tree is not cleaned up properly. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. The disk id for nopriv devices is stored in the private structure of the disk access record. For vxdisk operations on an initialized disk disk, the disk may be specified either by its disk access name or by its disk media name. Patch manually complete step 1, then continue with steps 23. Vxconfigd uses multiple threads to process the onlineoffline requests in parallel.

Let us see how we can create a basic volume and a file system with veritas volume manager. Getting error when adding disk to existing diskgroup vxvm. If the daemon is not running as in this the original version after this document was translated and published. The excluded device is still shown in vxdisk list outout. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager. Unable to initialize a vxvm disk with vxdisksetup after. Whenever i reboot the server the vxconfigd daemon does not start. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. However, when i issue the command vxdisk list i get vxvm vxdisk error v51684 ipc failure. Vxvm vxdisk error v5421 device c1t0d0 is already in use by lvm. Vxvm vxdmp v500 failback issued for 2010xe0 apr 18 12. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm.

All new users to veritas are highly encouraged to first read the veritas users guides enlucded with veritas, and found on docs. Autosuggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with vxvm hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease. Ive another compilation of vxvm command reference, have a look. When the veritas volume manager vxvm is installed on your system, and if veritas dynamic multipathing dmp is enabled on a physical disk or partition you want to export as virtual disk, then you have to export that disk or partition without setting the nondefault excl option. Vxvm vxdisk error configuration daemon is not accessible.

Vxvm disk installation to perform the disk initialization phase, use either the vxdiskadm menus or vxdiskadd. Before a disk can be brought under vxvm control, the disk must be accessible through the operating system device interface. Before applying the patch, ensure that no vxvm volumes are in use or open by performing the following actions. In this post i will try to provide a solution to this problem. How to repair vxvm vxdisk error v 5 1 531 device solved. Then, i check the disk status, it showed the multipathing is invalid. Removing of luns from vxvm in solaris while removing the luns from solaris you might need to unmap the luns from the os level. Vxvm needs information about the devices and paths attached to the system from operating system hpux and it uses hpuxs apis to query the device tree from os s io subsystem. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Unfortunately, this is a common issue in vxvm, exist many options. These are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager.

For netbackup enterprise server and netbackup server patches, see the. A vxvm volume appears to applications and the operating system as a. The compilation is most accurate and have been compiled from live server use. Solarisvxvmrecover failed disk when vxreattach fails posted on january 16, 2016 by sandeep shenoy in the event that the paths to a given device suffer a transient failure with the san array, the vxvm device will be reported as failed was by vxdisk list. A uninitialized variable gets a different value after os operating system patch installation, thereby making vxparms command. I have not tried the dd option, will do if nothing. Vxvm vxdisk command syntax with examples unixarena. Replacing failed hard disk under vxvm mirror using vxdiskadm step 1 identify the failed mirror disk as shown below. Obsolete patches, incompatibilities, superseded patches, or other requirements. Replacing a failed bootdisk in the following example, the host has a failed bootdisk c0t0d0. Replace a failed disk select a removed or failed disk,list,q. Lvm lvm operating system for a list of known disk device addresses. Vxvm vxdisksetup error v522480 disk is too small for.

Physical disks in vxvm are assumed to be movable, and are usually identified by a unique disk id stored on the physical disk, rather than by a disk device node. When the os and vxvm is refreshed, all device types are discovered and displayed by vxvm. How to break off a mirror of a vxvm root disk to create a. A common problem which sometimes we use to see in vxvm is dgs in disabled state.

Vxvm vxdisk error v512272 nonames2 not a valid dmpnode disk access name. Vxvm vxconfigd error v5187 unable to find a diskgroup configuration copy in specified disk. Please see the third party legal notice appendix to this documentation or tpip readme file accompanying this symantec product for more. Vxvm code is modified to use os raw device nodes if stat fails on dmp device. The purpose of this paper is to quickly get you up to speed in veritas, and to act as a quick referance. The disk concerned still had an lvm header, as indicated by the following output. Vxvm operates as a subsystem between operating system and data management systems, similar to file systems and database management systems. To initialize the disks as vxvm disks, use one of the following methods. In this we are going to consider the lun id c2t500604844a375f48d101s2. Failed disk replacement in vxvm unix bits and bites. Operating system hpux lvm and vxvm vxvm vxdisk error. Fortunately, the system is using veritas volume manager, with a mirror at c0t1d0.

Builtin asls of vxvm should build under vrtsasld also 88585 vxdmpadm getdmpnode nodename 88847 vxconfigd panic with alignment. How to break off a mirror of a vxvm root disk to create a separate root disk. Connect with top rated experts a disk array is a collection of physical disks that vxvm can on lines 56 are new. We have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade. Solarisvxvmrecover failed disk when vxreattach fails. Replace a faulty internal fiber disk solaris syscookbook. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Vxvm requires an ap upgrade and a solaris operating system patch. Modifications are to be distributed as patches to the released version. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. The new lun is detected by os, but vxvm is not able to detect it. Vxvm not started vxvm disabled during boot amit agarwal. For information on how to use vxdiskadm to initialize a single disk or all disks on a controller, refer to chapter, menu interface operations, of the veritas volume manager users guide you can use vxdiskadd to initialize a specific disk.

Enhance vxvm dr tool to clean up os and vxdmp device trees without user interaction. Veritas cluster server provides an open systems clustering solution that eliminates. The following sequence of steps can be used to restore the system to full redundancy. If volume manager kernel modules are not loaded, however, this voldctl. A veritas disk group is a collection of vxvm disks similar to ibms volume group.